Secularists challenge religious power in Indonesia

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Updated January 27, 2009 21:54:43

The Indonesian Council of Ulamas has issued a fatwa or religious ban on yoga, smoking and abstaining from electoral voting.

Presenter: Tito Ambyo
Speaker: Dr Muhammad Ali, Associate Professor at the University of California, Professor of Azyumardi Azra, from the State Islamic University

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